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At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing down

Critics say negligence, misguided investments and hubris have left the enterprise giant on its back foot.

Then in early April, the federal Cyber Safety Review Board released a long-anticipated report which showed the company failed to prevent a massive 2023 hack of its Microsoft Exchange Online environment. For many critics of Microsoft, the events of the past nine months are the logical conclusion of a company that has ridden the wave of market dominance for decades and ignored years of warnings that its product security and practices failed to meet the most basic standards. HPE in January said Midnight Blizzard gained access to a small number of company mailboxes dating back to May 2023, stealing data from executives in cybersecurity and other key departments, in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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